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    MSI 1651/2 in Canada?

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by JCMS, Feb 13, 2009.

  1. JCMS

    JCMS Notebook Prophet

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    Is there anywhere I can buy it as a barebone? Only place I found it was $1500 full equipped. Buying from the US gets me at $1300 CAD beforetaxes only with the WSXGA+ and P8400. ($150 shipping + 20% exchange rate)
     
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    Szer Notebook Consultant

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    Oconbudget is selling the WSXGA+ 1651 budget for $340 CONUS

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=342258

    I guess you would need to add a little more for shipping to Canada.

    Good luck.

    PS: I helped my friend buy one of these barebone from Ocon... excellent cheap notebooks
     
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  3. JCMS

    JCMS Notebook Prophet

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    Yeah! Thanks!
     
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    Szer Notebook Consultant

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    no problem glad to help. if you need a contact for CPU(ES/QS) feel free to ask me about it. I got to know the ebay seller(extemeprocessor) after making 3-5 purchases. he usually set special pricing if i said I'm buying :eek:
     
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    Ok, I see someone here is selling a P9500 for $300...hmm (a new P8400 is $300 in Canada...). I still need to
    a) Convince my father
    b) See if I can buy a laptop on student loan outside of those sold by school.
     
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    a QS T9600 is $263 now on ebay ( I may be able to ask it to cheapen it for you if you're interested) and also my QS T9600 is everything like OEM except with an ES sign on cpuz
     
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    Look at the MSI-1722 real cheap Ad listing in the MBR Marketplace, posted by OConBudget. zfactor has bought several of these already, and has posted a review in the MSI section.

    The 15" MSI-1651 wsxga+ barebones was $335 US, including shipping, so with some extra to ship to Canada, it still shouldn't be too bad.

    I found a T9600 [2.8 ghz] for $436 from Amazon shipped [zipzoomfly had the P9500 at $357 with shipping]. Intel 5300 Wifi at $40 from Amazon. OCZ 2gbx2 800mhz for a total of $45 and Hitachi 320gb 7200 rpm Hard Drive at $80 with $20 MIR from Newegg. So the whole build will be about $920.00 US.

    Some of the "older" CPUs are a direct drop in, while the "newer" CPUs require a bios update to start up. See the RK Computer information for the directly compatible CPUs.
    Hope that helps...
     
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    T9400 is a direct drop in (my friend's) so, the T9600 should work out of the box as well
     
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    Thanks, but the reason I'm going barebone is to recycle my C90S' RAM, HDD and WLAN so I only need the barebone & cpu. :)
     
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    man my build is close to yours, in my sig, for 200 less.
     
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    They don't seem to give away the T9600s. After I ordered it from Amazon, it went up $150 the next day - it normally goes the other way for me...

    I wanted as fast a CPU as possible and in the original series, so bios flashing wouldn't be an issue. Still, I've spent over $1000.00 for allot less power in a Dell...

    As my other laptop is a Clevo D901C, I would like some pep in this one... Now how do we mod a 9800m GTX into the MSI?
     
    AlanP, Feb 14, 2009
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